Diversion of Water from Lake Michigan: Report on the Sanitary District of Chicago, with Recommendations for Action on the Part of the War Department with Reference to Diversion of Water from Lake MichiganU.S. Government Printing Office, 1924 - 97 páginas |
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... Street to pump South Side sewage in a 20 - foot conduit away from the lake and to flush the South Fork with Lake water , an auxiliary canal , known as the Sag Channel , from the main channel to the Calumet River , and numerous other ...
... Street to pump South Side sewage in a 20 - foot conduit away from the lake and to flush the South Fork with Lake water , an auxiliary canal , known as the Sag Channel , from the main channel to the Calumet River , and numerous other ...
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... Street to the Des Plaines River at Lockport . This was dug 13 miles through earth to Willow Springs 24.4 feet deep ( measured from hydraulic grade line established by assumed flow of 14,000 cubic feet per second , with the lake at zero ...
... Street to the Des Plaines River at Lockport . This was dug 13 miles through earth to Willow Springs 24.4 feet deep ( measured from hydraulic grade line established by assumed flow of 14,000 cubic feet per second , with the lake at zero ...
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... Street on the Chicago River to Summit , a distance of 7.8 miles . It has a bot- tom width of 162 feet , side slopes of 1 on 2 on the south side , 1 on 1 on the north side , and is constructed on a grade of 1 in 40,000 . The earth and ...
... Street on the Chicago River to Summit , a distance of 7.8 miles . It has a bot- tom width of 162 feet , side slopes of 1 on 2 on the south side , 1 on 1 on the north side , and is constructed on a grade of 1 in 40,000 . The earth and ...
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... Street to Eighty- seventh Street , and on the north from Diversey Boulevard to Howard Street . While the sanitary district was constructing the main channel , the city of Chicago constructed intercepting sewers along the lake front and ...
... Street to Eighty- seventh Street , and on the north from Diversey Boulevard to Howard Street . While the sanitary district was constructing the main channel , the city of Chicago constructed intercepting sewers along the lake front and ...
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... Street station can pump 2,000 cubic feet per second from the lake , while the one at Lawrence Avenue has a capacity of 585 cubic feet per second . The Fullerton Avenue station , constructed in 1880 , has not been used since the opening ...
... Street station can pump 2,000 cubic feet per second from the lake , while the one at Lawrence Avenue has a capacity of 585 cubic feet per second . The Fullerton Avenue station , constructed in 1880 , has not been used since the opening ...
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20 feet amount of water approval Ashland Avenue authorized bridges Calumet River capita Capital represented cent Chicago River Chief of Engineers city of Chicago completed Congress construction Copperas Creek cost cubic feet cubic foot cubic yards discharge District of Chicago Diversion of 8,000 diversion of water dredging effect estimated excavation Federal only retained feet deep feet per minute feet per second flood flow Grafton Illinois River Illinois waterway improvement increased Joliet Kampsville Lake Michigan Lawrence Avenue levees Lockport locks and dams low-water lower main channel main drainage canal miles Mississippi River North Shore Channel North Side Peoria permit Plaines River population power house present pumping station reduced result Robey Street Sag Channel Salle sanitary district second-feet Secretary Secretary of War sewage treatment sewage-treatment project sewers Side treatment plant South Branch South Fork stream Table tion treatment project United water from Lake water supply width
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Página 87 - That the following sums of money be, and are hereby, appropriated, to be paid out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, to be immediately available, and to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of War and the supervision of the Chief of Engineers, for the construction, completion, repair, and preservation of the public works hereinafter named: ***** Sec.
Página 78 - That penstocks or other similar facilities adapted to possible future use in the development of hydroelectric power shall be installed in any dam herein authorized when approved by the Secretary of War upon the recommendation of the Chief of Engineers and of the Federal Power Commission...
Página 66 - War issued a permit to the department of public works and buildings of the State of Illinois for the construction of the Illinois waterway...
Página 83 - That the work shall be subject to the supervision and approval of the Engineer Officer of the United States Army in Charge of the locality, who may temporarily suspend the work at any time if, in his judgment, the interest of navigation so require.
Página 76 - An Act making appropriations for the construction, repair, and preservation of certain public works on rivers and harbors, and for other purposes...
Página 81 - That it shall be the duty of all persons owning, operating, and tending the drawbridges now built, or which may hereafter be built across the navigable rivers and other waters of the United States, to open, or cause to be opened, the draws of such bridges under such rules and regulations as in the opinion of the Secretary of War the public interests require to govern the opening of drawbridges for the passage of vessels and other water crafts, and such rules and regulations, when so made and published,...
Página 77 - States outside established harbor lines or where no harbor lines have been established, except on plans recommended by the Chief of Engineers and authorized by the Secretary of War ; and it shall not be lawful to excavate or fill, or in any manner to alter or modify the course, location, condition, or capacity of any port, roadstead, haven, harbor, canal, lake, harbor...
Página 85 - The contract further provided that "the amount of each periodical installment payment to be made by [purchaser] to the Company under this present lease shall be inclusive of and not in addition to the amount of each installment payment to be made by [purchaser] under such prior leases, bills or accounts ; and all payments now and hereafter made by [purchaser] shall be credited pro rata on all outstanding leases, bills and accounts due the Company by [purchaser] at the time each such payment is made.
Página 76 - War ; and it shall not be lawful to excavate or fill, or in any manner to alter or modify the course, location, condition, or capacity of any port, roadstead, haven, harbor, canal, lake, harbor of refuge, or inclosure within the limits of any breakwater, or of the channel of any navigable water of the United States...
Página 78 - Chicago river be unreasonably obstructive to navigation or injurious to property, the Secretary of War reserves the right to close said discharge through said channel or to modify it to such extent as may be demanded by navigation and property interests along said Chicago river and its south branch.